Pioneer

Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) is an international women’s fraternity with over 196,000 initiated members, 133 currently installed collegiate chapters and 135 active alumnae chapters across the United States and Canada. Over five decades ago, AOII joined the Arthritis Foundation to help conquer this life-altering disease. In recent years, they’ve focused on funding Arthritis Foundation juvenile arthritis (JA) programs to assist some 200,000 families directly affected by JA and other childhood rheumatic conditions. AOII funding supports JA Family Summit, JA Power Packs, JA Camps, and science initiatives like CARRA registry, PIKASO, and the Rheumatology Fellow Training Program. AOII also distributes hundreds of comforting stuffed pandas to kids at our JA Family Summit every year, and their members volunteer at camps across the country. They participate in Walk to Cure Arthritis and Jingle Bell Run events and host their own “Strike Out Arthritis!” fundraisers nationwide. To learn more about AOII, please visit www.alphaomicronpi.org.